Athletics

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• 8/22/2021
  

  Rule 50 and Racial Justice: The Long History of the IOC War on Athletes' Free Expression

  by Debbie Sharnak and Yannick Kluch

  "The recent rise of athlete activism brings the IOC’s claim that sports are a neutral space into direct conflict with athletes’ increasingly vocal demands for freedom of expression and the right to use their platform to advance human rights and social justice issues."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  7/26/2021
  

  A History of Gymnastics from Ancient Greece to Tokyo 2020

  From classical civilization to Olga Korbut to Tokyo 2020, here’s what you need to know about gymnastics’ evolution over the past two millennia.

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• 7/11/2021
  

  How Historians Convinced SCOTUS that the NCAA's Idea of Amateurism is a Myth

  by Ronald A. Smith

  The Supreme Court was influenced by the work of a team of historians to reject the NCAA's arguments about amateurism and open the way for college athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses – something history shows they did extensively before the NCAA's rules. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  Lots of People Won New Rights in the 1960s, but Not College Women Athletes

  by John Thelin

  Although the 1960s has been celebrated as a period of concern for equity and social justice, colleges showed scant concern for women as student-athletes.